January 2019 in Washington DC:
The Climate Advocacy Lab, a 501c3 that helps climate and clean energy advocates run smarter public engagement camapigns, invited us to lead our "How to be Helpful: Building Relationships for Social Impact" workshop as part of their Research + Experimentation seminar with 40+ academics and practitioners. Afterwards, Carina wrote:
"I appreciated that the workshop distilled a number of the social science insights we often talk about as critical to powerful volunteer programs into a single framework – one that can be applied to lots of different types of relationships, in the campaign world and beyond. After the workshop, I found myself identifying many of the ideas he identified and skills he demonstrated as I moved through the rest of my day, trying my best to “be helpful”!"
In 2018 Joe requested our hands-on matchmaking service. He wanted to connect with a researcher to talk about new ways of measuring Democracy Club's impact. Afterwards he said this about the experience:
"We got a dose of years' worth of research expertise in a 45 minute phone call."
In 2018 Danny requested our hands-on matchmaking service. He was looking for an overview of a literature as well as some new ideas about measuring the impact of their work. Here's what he said about the experience afterwards:
"At the Change.org Foundation we help people affected by issues in Asia and Latin America to create movements from their petitions. Now we want to understand their impact even further by studying how these campaigns increase the salience of issues in the broader community. A key question for us was how to measure saliency. In two short calls I got an overview of the research on this and was able to come up with several great ideas."
In 2018 Kathy requested our hands-on matchmaking service because she was looking an overview of a literature and was also open to the possibility of collaborating with a researcher on a new project. Here's what she reported back after an initial phone call turned into several phone calls and then turned into the beginning of a collaboration:
"Collaborating with reasearch4impact is amazing! What started with one simple application on-line has developed into a very exciting project to help the League of Women Voters of DC develop a GOTV campaign. I’m very much looking forward to using strategies for the 2020 election cycle learned from our 2016 tests that we are planning and implementing now. My team of faculty advisors has been incredibly accessible and generous with their time and expertise. Thank you!"